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is Professor at the Dept. of Near Eastern Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, and Dean of the Faculty of History, at Warsaw University (Poland). He is Member of the Committee for Pre- and Protohistoric Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences and of the Committee for Ancient Civilizations Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, as well as a UNESCO Expert for the archaeology of Ancient Mesopotamia. Since 1984 he has been directing archaeological excavations in Iraq (Tell Raffan, Tell Rijim) and Syria (Tell Djassa el-Gharbi, Tell Rad Shaqrah) and is now co-Director of the Syro-Polish archaeological expedition to Tell Arbid (Syria). He authored two monographic studies and ca 40 articles on different archaeological subjects (including preliminary excavation reports). |